Friday, April 04, 2008

Festive Friday: Our Next Logo?

Attentive reader that you are, you will have noticed that this very symbol forms an important part of our In the Middle logo: the visual pax vobiscum is superimposed over a cloudless earth, where it suggests an askew medieval T-O map (conveniently placed to the right for readers who prefer bludgeoning over suggestiveness with their symbols).

Today's festive Friday question, to which we encourage all readers to respond: if we were to redesign our somewhat dated logo (I believe that I cobbled it together -- in Microsoft Word!! -- more than a year ago), what words and/or image would you suggest to capture the spirit of this blog? Please post your comments below ... and if you'd like to try your hand at a new logo for us, feel free to email an image file to me [jeffreyjeromecohen@gmail] and I'll place it up for you. No LOL Cats, please (though LOL wombats are possibly acceptable).

That's so ... and your competition does at least concede the possibility of a wombat.

According to Michael Alexander (Medievalism, pp. 141-2), DG Rossetti had a real thing for wombats. One of Rossetti's acolytes, Val Prinsep, said, "We copied his [Rossetti's] very way of speaking. Wombats were the most beautiful of God's creatures. Medievalism was our beau idéal."

And there is a very lovely self-portrait of DGR weeping over the death of a wombat, with its dear little feet curled up.